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Take a look at the threads that have the posts below and ponder these weighty concepts.

~ How could our gentle feathered friends — the sweetly chirping birds that announce the beginning of spring — suddenly turn on mankind and cause death and destruction!?

~ Is it possible that Captain Nemo from the famous Jules Verne novel build a city on the sea floor!

~ What kind of post-apologetic world in 3000 AD will there be, and how far will the Me2 movement have progressed?



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The Birds (1963)




This is the closest Hitchcock ever came to a science fiction story, and some folks might say it really isn't one. The movie doesn't explain why birds of many different species suddenly have a real bad attitude and want kill everybody — including nice folks like Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.





This also differs from other Hitchcock movies in that the suspense is not caused by humans plotting evil deeds for nefarious purposes. That's its chief strength, because the burning question throughout the movie — unanswered even at the end — is why are the birds attacking mankind? And since the motivation for murderous birds it absolutely impossible to guess, this Hitchcock movie deliberately denies us what ever other film by the master has given us.

A delicious mystery to solve.

With The Birds. we're terrorized not only by what could happen to our likable hero and his loved ones, we're tortured by the burning question — "Why are these feathered fiends so pissed off at us!"





It completely disproves the old adage: What you don't know can't hurt you.
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

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Robert Ryan plays Captain Nemo in this British produced sci-fi adventure, featuring special effects which are plentiful if not overly impressive. Nemo rules the submerged metropolis of Templemer, which receives its air from a machine that creates gold as a by-product.

A group of outsiders (including Chuck Conners as a senator) complicates things for Ryan, and so does a giant manta ray. Also starring Luciana Paluzzi (The Green Slime, Thunderball), and Nanette Newman.

Directed by James Hill.
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Captive Women — aka 3000 AD (1952)

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Also released as: 3000 A.D. and 1000 Years From Now

The date is the 29th century and the place is New York City, wrecked by an atomic war, populated by two types of humans: the "mutes" (mutants) and the "norms" (normal people).

Ironically, the mutes are peaceful and civilized, while the norms are sadistic perverts who wear Dark-Age costumes and lock up women in people-sized bird cages. The mutes raid the norms for non-radiation-poisoned women to be used for breeding. A third group, the "upriver people" worship the devil, but they're eventually drowned in a flooded tunnel under the Hudson river.

The plot, acting, and direction are pretty laughable, but there is one good matte shot (a jungle-covered New York City).

Starring Robert Clarke (Beyond the Time Barrier, The Hideous Sun Demon), Margaret Field, and William Schallert, all three of whom starred in The Man from Planet X the previous year.

Directed by Stuart Gilmore.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)